A monograph of the lories, or brush-tongued parrots : composing the family Loriidae

by: Mivart, St. George Jackson, 1827-1900; Keulemans, J. G. (John Gerrard), 1842-1912, ill; Wetmore, Alexander, 1886-1978, former owner. DSI; Davidson, Samuel, former owner. DSI; George Philip & Son, engraver; Bernard Quaritch (Firm); California Academy of Sciences, associated name. DSI

Publication date: 1896

Topics: Lories, Parrots

Publisher: London : R.H. Porter ...

Collection: biodiversity

Digitizing sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

Contributor: Smithsonian Libraries

Language: English

Illustrated by J.G. Keulemans; maps by G. Philip and Son

"Printed by Taylor and Francis ..., Fleet Street" --Verso of t.p

Page 24A, with blank verso, is inserted between pages 24 and 25; the final p. is blank

Includes index

"Literature": p. xlix-liii

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SCNHRB has two copies (formerly BIRDRB and SCAIRB)

SCNHRB c. 1 (39088003173788; formerly SCAIRB) has the original brown embossed cloth binding with gilt-tooled front cover and spine and top edge gilt. "Quaritch" is stamped at foot of spine

SCNHRB c. 2 (39088007650146; formerly BIRDRB) has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Alexander Wetmore, sixth Secretary, 1946-1953

SCNHRB c. 2 has autograph on front free endpaper: A. Wetmore

SCNHRB c. 2 has typed letter, signed, inserted at front of volume, from the staff of the museum and aquarium of the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, offering this book as a wedding gift to Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Davidson

SCNHRB c. 2 is bound in brown embossed cloth; gilt-tooled front cover and spine; top edge gilt; "Quaritch" is stamped at foot of spine

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Associated-names: Keulemans, J. G. (John Gerrard), 1842-1912, ill; Wetmore, Alexander, 1886-1978, former owner; Davidson, Samuel, former owner; George Philip & Son, engraver; Bernard Quaritch (Firm); California Academy of Sciences, associated name